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HENRY E. MAKER, on NEWTON, (UPPER FALLS) MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNoR To HIM-SELE AND HoSEA o. HoYT, or SAME PLAGE.

Letters .Patent No. 89,321, dated April 27, 1869.

' MPROYED SPRINGn-BED BOTTOM, OR CUSHION.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

"(Upper Falls,) in the county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Spring-Beds, or Cushions;and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the followingSpecification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-Figure l is a longitudinal section, and

Figure 2, a transverse section of a spring-bed, or cushion, as made inaccordance with my invention.

In carrying out my invention, I employ two rectangnlarframes, AB,arranged so that their end bars, a a, b b, shall cross one another attheir middles, they being connected together by joint-pins, e e.

Between each two next adjacent side bars, d e, of such frames, I arrangea series of wire-springs, O, these springs being formed in manner asrepresented. Each series of them is disposed on one of two long bars, D,which gothrough eyes, f, formed in .the several springs, the barsserving to keep the springs in their due relations with each other, orfrom being bent out of parallelism. One end of each spring is xed in orto the side bar of one frame, the other end of such spring being xed inor to the next adjacent sidebar of the other frame.

A sacking, or mattress, E, is extended from the npper side bar of one ofthe frames to that of the other, and fastened to them. A

Now, when this spring-bed is placed within or on a. bedstead, or restson a door, and is pressed downward by the'weightof one or more persons,when sitting or reposing on the sacking, or mattress, the said sacking,or mattress will be depressed, and also will be stretched While beingdepressed, the stretching of the sacking, or mattress being due to themovements of the two crossed frames. Thus, the sagging o'f the sacking,or mattress will be more or less counteracted 'by the said stretching.Besides this, the sacking, or

mattress will rest on a Spring, or elastic foundation, the springs ofwhich are so arranged as not to come in contact with any part of thesacking, or mattress. Consequently, a party, when reposing on themattress, will not have the springs underneath him and acting againstthe sacking, as is the casein most spring-beds,

and therefore, will not experience the inconveniencesthereof.

What I claim as my invention, is-

rlhe combination and arrangement of the two series of springs, and thecrossed and pivoted frames A B, the whole being applicable to a sacking,or mattress, as set forth.

I also claim the arrangement and combination of the sustaining-bars D D,the two-series of springs O, and the crossed and pivoted frames AB, theWhole being substantially as and for the purpose, or purposes ashereinbefore explained.

r HENRY E. MAKER. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.

